Sunday, June 17, 2012

Passing shots

People tell you up is better than down

But they never tell you which is up and which is down

Yoko Ono said that, of course, but so did Todd Spiker--in a way. "...sometimes 'up' might seem like 'down' on this countdown, and vice versa," he writes by way of explaining The Backspin MVP List, a look back at ten years of WTA Backspin's coverage of and musings on WTA players (and perhaps other "phenomena") whose wholes have--for better or worse--far exceeded the sum of their parts. Part 1 includes numbers 21 through 25 of the top 25 on the list, as well as an Honorable Mention.

Kaia Kanepi has withdrawn from Wimbledon because of a heel injury.

Melanie Oudin has been given a wild card into the Wimbledon main draw.

I STILL Stand With Maria

About the blog author

Diane Elayne Dees is a writer, a semi-retired psychotherapist in private practice, and a life-long fan of women's professional tennis.

For several years, Diane published the progressive blog, The Dees Diversion, and she also contributed regularly to the Mother Jones MoJo Blog. Diane has published political essays, short fiction and creative nonfiction. For the past several years, she has concentrated on writing poetry (Diane has written several tennis-themed poems).